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Analysis of the psychological conditions and related factors of breast cancer patients

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Sufferers of breast cancer are often plagued by various psychological problems. Mastectomy, which has a serious influence on the female sex characteristics, can bring about especially serious psychological problems. These problems affect not only the patients’ quality of life but also the beginning, development, and end of the disease. This paper reviewed the relationships between the patients’ personal factors, the disease itself, treatment factors, and other socio-psychological factors and psychological conditions so as to provide new ideas for the psychological intervention on breast cancer patients, comprehensive clinical diagnosis and treatment, and prevention and cure.

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  1. Department of Plastic Surgery, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    Guilin Huang & Yiping Wu

  2. The Second Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shihezi University, Shehezi, 832002, China

    Guilin Huang, Guiqing Zhang, Pinghua Zhang & Jie Gao

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Huang, G., Wu, Y., Zhang, G. et al. Analysis of the psychological conditions and related factors of breast cancer patients. Chin. -Ger. J. Clin. Oncol. 9, 53–57 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10330-009-0135-2

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